HR: 0800h
AN: SF21A-0017    [Abstracts]
TI: ECHO - An Infrastructure for Distributed Applications
AU: * Pfister, R
EM: robin.g.pfister@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 586, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Weinstein, B
EM: beth.weinstein@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 586, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Wichmann, K
EM: wichmann@gst.com
AF: Global Science & Technology, Inc., 7855 Walker Dr, Ste 200, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AB: The Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO) has been operational for two years and enables a "marketplace" of science data and service providers, and consumers. To accomplish this goal, ECHO provides two registries. The first is a registry of metadata that is updated on a regular basis by the data providers. These metadata describe science content and data acquisition details about the data holdings. The second is a registry of services. Together these registries support discovery, access and delivery capabilities. ECHO makes these available to clients so that clients appear to have all the metadata in their system without the burden of managing it all. ECHO also offers its clients a single interface for placing orders, and then brokers them on behalf of the users. ECHO provides some user account management capabilities. In the future, ECHO will broker service and data transactions. This all serves to simplify client development and streamline data and service access by end users. It also alleviates the burden on the scientist of having to find and apply data services to the data. Scientists can focus their time on their jobs of analysis and research. ECHO also provides tools to help in use of the APIs. This presentation discusses the capability and resources available to help providers of data and services, client developers and applications developers in using ECHO as their data and service access infrastructure.
UR: http://eos.nasa.gov/echo
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting